Living on Love: Power Couple

April 24, 2015 4:51 PM

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The absurdity inside many of Broadway comedies, a world where anything can happen, comes through in full force this season in the new Living on Love, playing at the Longacre Theater. As opera star Raquel De Angelis, Renée Fleming belts it out while letting it all hang out as a diva trying to keep her marriage, career, and life from falling apart. Her on-again, off-again affection for her husband, played by Douglas Sills, culminates in a heartwarming way. All of the shenanigans are forgiven and left behind, just like Broadway prescribes.

The show, written by Joe DiPietro and directed by Kathleen Marshall, shines in the short second act when all of the cast members pair off in the appropriate and rightful way. It's during the first act that there's an overwhelming sense of disorder, confusion, and mayhem that gets in the way at times...